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Follow
the latest reports on the COP 9 Climate Change Convention in Milan, Italy
Over 180 delegates are
meeting in Milan to discuss evidence for global warming and the prospects for
ratification and implementation of the Kyoto Treaty. Yet, with the assault on
multilateral initiatives in recent years by the Bush regime, even the modest
expectations of this meeting face sabotage.
Kate Prendergast for IslamOnline
Although
press speculation has centred on when and whether Russia
will ratify the Convention's Kyoto Protocol, the overwhelming
majority of the world's governments are moving ahead and discussing
the complex rules that will govern its operation.
Friends of the Earth International
Earth’s atmosphere has
warmed about 0.19 Celsius (0.34 degrees Fahrenheit) in the past quarter century,
according to climate data collected by NOAA satellites.
If that trend continued Earth would warm about 0.76 C (1.38 degrees F) in
the next century, a climate change so much less than climate model
predictions that policy makers might consider rearranging environmental and
conservation priorities, say the two scientists who process and publish the
climate data.
University of Alabama in Huntsville
There are good and bad guys
in the politics of climate change; the good guys being those who do what
governments don’t. The bad guys are the guys who denied the climate was
changing, or said that the changes weren't anything humans could or should do
anything about.
The Bush Administration is
trying to market the same inadequate approach here at the UNFCCC COP9 in Milan,
that they have taken at home, strongly opposing any binding emissions targets
and claiming to have a better approach," said Jeff Fiedler, Climate Policy
Specialist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, before the high-level
segment of the Climate Conference.
Singy Hanyona for Planets-Voice
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